Brian of Nazareth

Brian of Nazareth (25 December 4 BC-33 AD) was a Jewish zealot who, in 33 AD, was executed on the orders of Pontius Pilate after attempting to kidnap his wife. It was believed that he had amassed a large following of Judeans who mistook him for Jesus, as they had been born on the same day in the same town, and Brian had shared some of his teachings with the locals in order to evade the Roman Army by disguising himself as a preacher.

Biography
Brian was born on 25 December 4 BC in Bethlehem, Iudaea, the son of a Roman centurion in the Jerusalem garrison and a Jewish prostitute. He was raised by his mother and was unaware of his Roman identity until much later in his life, being raised by a stepfather. Brian later came to be an idealistic young man who despised the Roman occupation of his homeland, and, in 33 AD, he was recruited into Reshef's zealot organization, having fallen in love with one of its members, Judith Iscariot. Brian succeeded in painting anti-Roman graffiti for the organization, and he escaped the Roman soldiers and was able to return to the zealot hideout. From there, he took part in a plot to kidnap Pontius Pilate's wife, but the zealots sent to take part in the mission clashed with rival Galilean zealots who had coincidentally sought to carry out the same kidnapping that night. After the ensuing fight, only Brian was left alive, and he was arrested by Roman soldiers and taken to Pilate himself. He pleaded his case that he was a Roman because of his father, but his pleas were ignored. Brian managed to escape back to the zealots' base, but, while hiding from Roman soldiers, he fell from a weak balcony onto a platform where some "prophets" were speaking. Hoping to blend in, Brian began to reiterate some of the teachings that he had remembered from Jesus' "Sermon on the Mount", warning people against passing judgment on others.

Death
Soon, several people became obsessed with Brian and followed him, and they attributed the slightest unusual occurrences to being miracles performed by Brian. The crowd later followed him to his house one morning, and he woke up to find multitudes of people gathered outside of his home, demanding to see the "Messiah". Brian failed to convince them to disperse, and, while sneaking out the back of his home, he was rearrested by the Romans. He was sentenced to be crucified as one of the 140 Judean prisoners condemned during the Passover season, and, when Pilate was convinced to spare him, they accidentally spared another man who claimed to be Brian. Brian was then left to die with the others, dying after a few days of being tied and raised up on a cross.